Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Medicine, Health, and Society"
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(2019-03-25)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyMental health and illness on college and university campuses have become major topics of concern in recent years. The following study consists of a qualitative investigation of student and faculty perspectives about mental ...
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(2016-04-21)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyDespite being the racial/ethnic group that is disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS, African Americans are underrepresented in HIV/AIDS clinical trials. The reasons for the inadequate participation of African Americans ...
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(2015-04-14)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThe Affordable Care Act (ACA) has massive potential to help reduce gender and SES disparities in health, yet low-SES white men overwhelmingly oppose the policy. This paper argued white men are hurt by their negative racial ...
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(2017-08-09)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyOver the past several years, increasing the adoption of interoperable EHRs has been one of central goals of the US healthcare system. This study is the first known state-wide assessment of adoption rates of EDRs and certified ...
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(2019-07-19)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyLiving in a food desert is associated with worse health outcomes, and consequently there has been an increasing amount of intervention research on how improve access to and consumption of healthy foods among people who ...
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(2018-04-13)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThis paper will discuss therapeutic outlets as a potential and viable treatment option for alleviating symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military veterans. This paper will also discuss what the pursuit ...
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(2014-07-28)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThe goal of this project is to re-evaluate patient awareness of Vanderbilt’s biobanking practices and whether patients are interested in having more information of the project. 61 exit-interviews were conducted with adult ...
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(2017-04-03)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyDisease advocacy organizations are important political actors and knowledge producers. Since the late 1990s, colorectal cancer (CRC) advocacy organizations have emerged as part of a health social movement focused on ...
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(2019-03-26)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyOpen in Emergency (OiE) is the 2016 fall/winter special issue of the Asian American Literary Review (AALR), a small, arts non-profit based out of Washington D.C. Described as an arts- and humanities-based intervention into ...
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(2020-07-31)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietySocioeconomic and demographic factors have been linked to clinical markers of health and general feelings of well-being in healthcare settings. Current conceptualizations of the social determinants of health and how such ...
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(2018-04-12)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThe topic of cultural competency is a complex, often misunderstood tenant of medical education. Furthermore, because being culturally competent is central to providing patients with proper care, it is crucial for medical ...
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(2019-07-19)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyInternational migration of highly-skilled persons, commonly referred to as "brain drain", has long plagued the Global South. The phenomenon of brain drain has devastated the healthcare infrastructure of many source countries, ...
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(2018-04-24)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyAnti-science movements are groups that oppose, either in behavior or ideology, normative allopathic medicine or science. Conventional medicine typically either rejects these groups or attempts outreach that often fails to ...
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(2019-07-19)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyEmpathy is a therapeutic part of any clinical encounter and doctor-patient relationship. Clinical empathy, the term used for empathetic practice in medicine, is defined as the clinician’s ability to identify a patient’s ...
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(2016-03-23)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyProfessional athletes are at unique risk for difficulties during retirement due to factors such as early retirement age, identity change, and financial instability. Due to factors such as the high physicality of the sport, ...
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(2016-04-04)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyIn response to the growing desires of American women to reclaim childbirth from the pathologized and technocratic grips of Western medicine, the social media based organization, Birth Without Fear, provides positive birth ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyA comprehensive review of the state of food security in the United States with a specific focus on the communities in Nashville, Tennessee is presented in this thesis. Food insecurity is proposed as a mechanism by which ...
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(2019-03-20)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyA growing body of evidence has coined a new term in oncology research and practice – “Financial Toxicity” – in relation to the high out-of-pocket costs and cost-sharing insinuated on cancer patients. More research is needed ...
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(2015-04-05)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThe prevalence of combat-induced male genital injury suffered in modern warfare is at historic levels, and yet it remains as an underdeveloped area of military discourse, rendering it into an invisible phenomenon. Although ...
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(2019-07-26)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyFirearm violence has been a widespread and costly public health epidemic in the United States during the last few decades with death counts approaching nearly 40,000 per year. In the wake of recent mass shootings, debates ...